HENDERSON'S TESTED SEEDS FOR MARKET GARDENERS 



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Compute List of 



VEGETABLE SEEDS. 



BEANS Continued. 



Refugee, or 1,000 to 1. A very popular market gardener's variety on account of its 

 exceeding productiveness. It is extensively grown for a fall crop both in the north 

 and south. The plants are strong, healthy and robust, about 15 inches high, 

 branching and bushy in growth. Our strain is very fine, and will be found free from 

 flat pods . (See specialties page 3) . _. 



Refugee, Extra Early. This is a true Refugee, having the peculiar, *oreading habit 

 of its class, producing a mass of small leaves which protect the pods trom the sun, 

 preserving their attractive color under trying conditions. It is two weeks earlier 

 than the old Refugee, and is largely grown as an early spring crop, and again in 

 late fall, at which season it does remarkably well . (See specialties page 3) 



Stringiest Green Pod, Burpee's. Very early, productive, and a good shipper 



DWARF WAX-PODDED or "BUTTER" BEANS. 



Black Wax, Henderson's Improved or Pencil Pod. One of the bes>t early round podded 

 wax varieties, an enormous cropper, of good quality and an excellent shipper. (See 

 engraving.) 



Davis' Kidney Wax. An excellent shipping variety 



Hodson Long Pod Wax. Hodson Wax is in many ways quite distinct from all other 

 bush beans. Its great size enables it to cany a much larger crop of pods than any 

 other; it is not unusual for it to produce twice as much as any other variety. The 

 plants should stand six inches apart in the row, and on very favorable soils they yield 

 better at a still greater distance. The crop should be picked as soon as the pods have 

 attained their size, as when old they are apt to develop too much string. The heavy 

 foliage keeps the pods well sheltered from the sun, so that their very light cream color 

 is well preserved. It is not early, the crop usually being ready about 12 days after 

 the early sorts. In seasons when all varieties have been attacked by rust more 

 or less severely, Hodson Wax has again and again proved itself practically free 

 not only from rust, but from all other diseases 



Golden Age Wax. Besides being absolutely stringless Golden Age is remarkable for its 

 rust-resisting qualities. The plants are vigorous in growth and bear heavy crops of 

 almost transparent tender golden waxy pods. Ready to pick in 45 days from 

 planting , 



Sure Crop Stringless Wax. This variety is well adapted for market garden purposes 

 because of its vigorous growth, productiveness and hardiness. Pods are rich yellow, 

 6 to 7 inches long, entirely stringless at all stages of development 



Unrivaled Wax. A comparatively new variety, very early. (See specialties page 3) . . 



Wardwell's Kidney Wax. A handsome large podded sort for main crop 



BEANS, BUSH LIMA. 



Early Giant, Henderson's. It is the earliest of the large bush sorts, and may there- 

 fore be had on the table weeks ahead of the old pole varieties. The strong, rugged 

 plant produces so freely and continuously that a small planting will ensure an 



abundant supply of the most delicious beans right up to frost 



Improved "Henderson" Bush Lima. About five days later than the "Henderson," 

 but the beans and pods are larger; it is not so prolific but equally good in other re- 



spects. 



"Henderson" Bush Lima. A true bush variety, requiring no support; enormously 

 productive and extremely early, coming in two weeks ahead of any other Bush or 

 Climbing Lima and bearing continuously until frost, succeeding even in Northern 

 States; the beans have the true Lima flavor. The surest, and most prolific cropper 

 of all 



Pordhook Bush Lima. Of true bush habit, growing stiffly erect. The pods, borne in 

 clusters, are 4 to 5 inches in length and contain three to five splendid plump beans. 

 It is also early and a heavy cropper . (See engraving) 



Dreer's Bush Lima. A most satisfactory variety for general crop for the market 

 gardener. Though not quite so compact as some other varieties the habit of the 

 plant is well fixed. It bears an enormous crop of very attractive beans of the same 

 shape as the Dreer's Improved Pole Lima; just the bean the market demands. 

 The beans are produced near the centre of the plant in enormous quantities and the 

 plants bear clear up till frost. Few crops are more profitable 



Pott to Bush Lima . Similar to the preceding 



BEANS, POLE LIMA. 



Early Leviathan Lima, Henderson's. Leviathan is fully a week earlier than any other 



Eole variety, therefore can be grown successfully where other sorts would be caught 

 y early frosts. The plant is strong and takes to the poles more readily than any 

 other sort. It is a prodigious cropper, producing its pods in large clusters from base 

 to top of pole, frequently from 5 to 10 together. These are well filled with large fleshy 

 beans of excellent quality, pale green in color, and possessing that rich, buttery 

 flavor so highly esteemed by all. (See engraving) 



Ideal, Henderson's. This is another sterling variety of our own introduction. The 

 pods are amazingly large, and borne in great clusters. The vine does not differ 

 materially from that of the ordinary pole varieties. Its chief distinction lies in the 

 size of the pods, and the fact that the average yield is greater than in any other va- 

 riety. Though a little later than our Early Leviathan, it is just as early as the "Ordi- 

 nary pole varieties, and continues to produce enormous crops of the best-flavored 

 beans, right up to frost 



Large White Lima. The old favorite, universally grown for both family and market 

 use. The large, flat, kidney-shaped beans, shelled either green or dried, are tender 

 and delicious when cooked 



Challenger, or Potato Lima 



King of the Garden Lima 



Dreer's Improved Lima. A thick, almost round Bean of fine quality and a large yielder; 

 very early ' 



BEANS. CLIMBING or POLE. 



Old Homestead. This variety we consider superior to all other green-podded pole 

 Beans; enormously productive, early and continuous bearer; large green pods in 

 great clusters, stringless and tender 



White Creaseback. One of the finest early pole Beans, bearing in profusion clusters 

 of fleshy green pods, 4 to 5 inches long and deeply creased. Perfectly stringless, 

 tender and of superior quality when used at a tnap Bean. The matured beant are 

 pure white and excellent shelled 



NOTICE 



Beans we do not de- 

 liver free. Purchaser 

 pays transportation by 

 the quart and over. 

 For Parcel Post Zone 

 Rates see page 2 of 

 cover. Beans weigh 

 (Postal weight) 2 lbs. 

 per ql. 



PRICES 



Quart ! Peck Bush. 



.75 



.70 



.SO 



.80 



4.75 



4.50 

 5.50 



5.50 



Crop failure 



Crop 



1.00 



.90 

 .80 



.70 



1.00 



.80 

 .80 



.75 



.75 

 .80 

 .75 



80 



.60 



failure 



5.50 



5.50 

 5.50 

 5.50 



6.00 

 4.75 



4.50 

 6.00 



5.50 

 5.50 



18 00 



16.00 

 20.00 



20.00 



20.00 



20.00 

 20.00 

 2C.00 



22.00 



18.00 



16.00 

 22.00 



20.00 

 20 00 



4.75 IS. 00 



4.75 18.00 



4.75 

 5.50 

 4.75 



5.50 



18.00 

 20.00 

 IS. 00 



20.00 



3.60 12.00 



60 3.50 I 12.00 





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PENCIL POD BLACK WAX BEAN. 



FORDHOOK BUSH LIMA 



EARLY LBVIATHAN POLK LIMA 



Our Business 

 was founded by 



Peter Henderson in 1 847 



and is now carried on 

 by his grandsons 



Peter Henderson and Howard M. Henderson. 



